Made: Easy Patriotic Wreath

My friend and I set out on a last minute wreath making girls-night-in. So within a few clicks on Pinterest I found this cute wreath!

We figured we'd be patriotic and make a wreath that can go up for Memorial Day! 

Our criteria was that I had to be able to go purchase it all at walmart and it had to be cheap and easy enough for one night to complete.

Materials:

Blue yarn

Red yarn

White yarn

White craft foam

Hot glue

Straw wreath

The straw wreath was under $3, the yarn was each $2.77 and the foam was .33 cents--so this is a cheap DIY!
 

**Leave the plastic on the wreath! (and you could use another type of wreath, but this was the cheapest option at Walmart.  If I had more time and had planned ahead, maybe I would have gone to a hardware store and bought foam.  The dollar store has pool noodles, but those seemed hard to keep in the circle shape.)

First we did the blue. We did about a quarter if the wreath.

We didn't officially measure anything, just eye balled it all.

Sometimes we tied the yarn to start, sometimes I used hot glue and sometimes I tucked behind current yarn. No real rhyme or reason.

Easy peasy! It did take longer than I thought it would but that's because I was trying to line the yarn up super neat and straight. Then my friend started doubling up (fold the yarn in half) and wrap it that way. 

I also was cutting my yarn pieces too long and getting knots in it which slowed me down!

For the stars, the original tutorial used cards tick. I saw this foam and thought it would work well. 

We used cookie cutters to make an impression then cut on the lines--no pen marks!! :)

We used hot glue to secure the stars on the wreath and viola! Our wreath was finished!!

I plan to use a burlap strip to hang from the door!

 Here is the original tutorial I found for this wreath.   Here is the wreath that I really wanted to do, but don't quite have the time!